Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-08-04
JEDGE WAXEM ABROAD.
THE CONGRESSMAN WRITES FROM
THE CITY OF ROME.
He Rambles About the Palaces of the
Coesars and Chews Tobacco on the
rincian HiIl-He Feels at Home Again
and Proceeds to Tell His Readers Why.


ROME, July IS.
DEAR EDITOR: Once more feel to home
once more feel at myself, once more am
in the capital city of a great nation, and not
withstanding, nevertheless, it amt my own.
or nothin like it, experience a consanguinity
tony surroundings, as it wair, which comes
natural to modern statesman when he gifts
on to the stanipin ground OF the statesmen
and orators and politicians and Legislators
which made Rome the Washington city of
Italy 1000 years ago. The first thing seen
when we passed the massive wall that shut
Rome out from the wild barbarian world,
and was high protective tariff to all her
home industrys. was big circus bill adver
ment stuck right on its face notifying every
body that "Gaetano Koch" was the candidate
for city ingineer, and as We perceded these
election notices increased till there wasn't any
other kind of bills on the walls Mr.. Koch
led the list, though, and there wasn't hardly
u ruin or relic or a church that didn't have
his name on it, Politics is my faverite study,
and l like to do all can to git thar in eSec-
ton times, but want distinct line drawed
between politics and patient medcin, and
was glad to hear, when the election was over.
that Koch only got about $50 votes out of q
possible L, 600 He paid $1,000 for his print
ing. so understand.
Congress, OF the same thing. was i'm session,
and at the very first opportunity / went
around to see how it compared with our own
and with what had seen of the English party
ment. The upper house, senators they are
called. had adjourned and gone home for the
season, but the laboiin, Or lower house, was
still tendin to its duties. The Italian capital
is a big brown stone four story building that
Ia Al.
and it is set right Oh the street in the business
part of town If man was out lookin for
the capitol Of great nation he'd picl, this
one out about the last thing The members
pass in by the front door, but visitors have t.
go down a side street and up an aley. where
they find pair of stares leadin to the gal,
lery, which is free for every body till the last
seat is filed, then the doors are shut We
got a good seat, and | looked around to see
the hall of the Italian representatives and the
men themselves. The hall is very high, fin
ished in blue, with the wood work painted
white, and is well lit up from the top. 1t is
away ahead of the English house of commons,
but don't compare with our congressional
chamber. The speaker occupies a platform
with a minister on each side and the clel ks sci
on platform below, and the members set on
benches in the amphtheatre stile with desks
running clean around. The desks amt rs
convenient as they might be, but they air
better than none. The lady's gallery is bacl,
of the speaker and is like the other galleries
only it was adorned with loneliness the day
! was there, and was purity nigh sorry
hadn't brought Mandy along SOS could have
got mixed up in it as it wair. These Italians
appreciate the ladies more than the British
ers do and make their arrangements nc
cording. l was pleased to see the same stjle
OF fondly gazing into the gallery and then
again peepin up by fits and starts as is in
d -od in by our own members but hardly
| expected to see member draw an oppery
| glass on the fair visitors, which he did anu
which he kept lavin on his desk afterwards
| for reference, purity much as my old friend
| Sam Randall keeps a tariff report handy to
pull at a minutes notice. | observed, too,
| that without goiu into the committee of the
whole or taking recess or anything of that
sort the drinks was brought into the speaker
and he "squinched his dry" ef may be al
lowed the expression, without interruptin the
proceedings of the house | am heartily in
| favor Of this enlightened and pleasin custom
| being adopted i'll our national capitol, and
the oppery glasses wouldn't be so bad to have
either. In looks the Italian deputies average
up as well as the English, and eff the Ameri.
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